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So is all the advertising run during morning cartoons, and that targets an even younger demo than 13-17 year olds.
Those ads are bad, but instagram and its ilk are quite addictive. If don't think it's ok to turn a large group of children into screen zombies because "ads during cartoons".
This is not surprising. Google has a history violating the privacy of and targetting ads to not only teenagers, but children:
- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/business/youtube-ads-kids...
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/business/media/youtube-ki...
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/business/media/google-you...
- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/technology/google-youtube...
- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/technology/youtube-google...
When will governments wake up and put a stop to this? Their inaction is simply a sign of complicity. Absolutely disgraceful and criminal behavior.
Everyone working at these companies: you're partly to blame, whether you're directly involved or not. Reconsider the behavior you're supporting, and quit.
Market data science is tragically fascinating. It's a superpower, capable of being used for eithger good or bad.
Since I got kids I realized how they are the weakest link in the chain and are targeted by everyone. From tobacco (at the end nobody starts smoking at 30), to "free" cartoons (peppa pig backpack is not free, though), school book sellers. Heck, even the school this year pressured to put my kid in their social media. There is a whole world of people making their living out of your kids. Sorry for the rant. This is just…
What a dirtbags.
"We're sorry." This is not surprising. Google has a history violating the privacy of and targetting ads to not only teenagers, but children: - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/business/youtube-ads-kids... - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/business/media/youtube-ki... - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/business/media/google-you... - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/technology/google-youtube... - https://www.n…
This reads like a tragic story. Once you've collected enough data on every internet user out there to group them into different advertising cohorts, the remaining ungrouped users, by process of elimination (due to privacy or targeted advertising laws), are children; and now they can be targeted just as easily.
I don't think this is a tragic story.
I think this is a rather boring and formulaic plot we're seeing over and over: the story of late-stage capitalism and the application of value-extraction to human social structures resulting in comically terrible outcomes.
"We're sorry." This is not surprising. Google has a history violating the privacy of and targetting ads to not only teenagers, but children: - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/business/youtube-ads-kids... - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/business/media/youtube-ki... - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/business/media/google-you... - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/technology/google-youtube... - https://www.n…
Instead we should prevent children having money. Until you're 16, you may not handle money. You may not buy things for money. You may not sell things. You may not enter into contracts to exchange money.
Your parents however can do all of those things on your behalf.
At that point, advertising to children no longer is relevant - the children cannot buy the advertised things.